Might. Jesus speaks of his power.

People prove ourselves with all my power. Money, fame, strength, beauty, learning. Why? And we know that everything will end once in our lives.

Jesus says, “Do not defend him, for he who is not against is for you” (Luke 9:50). Do we long to be great? More significant than a child? Why? He did whatever, he always taught his disciples, he taught them about Heavenly Father, about mutual love, about help, surprising? Not very much. After all, every attitude is challenging.
Contrary to the motives of the apostles and each of us. Are we great !? Even before God, we make ourselves more significant than we are. I want things to go, according to my imagination. I need recognition.

To illustrate, we will use the case of a man who fell into mortal sin but found his way back from his selfish desires and became more spiritual. This man was incredibly tempted to watch The Passion of the Christ, so he went and watched him. Jesus’ suffering and death struck this man right in the heart. On a colossal movie screen, everything Jesus paid for his sins was shown in detail in front of him. Before the end of the film, the man ran out of the cinema and rushed to the Church, looked for a priest, and asked him for confession. The priest, moved by the man’s sincerity, left everything at that and listened. The man cried for mercy and was forgiven. His heart changed instantly, and the dominion of his past sins disappeared forever. This story suggests that Jesus may come to us in various ways.

Jesus often told disciples that “they are incomprehensible.” They spent three years with him, listened to his teachings, saw him heal, resurrected the dead, cast out evil spirits, and even transformed on the hill of Tabor. But it didn’t seem to be enough. In today’s Gospel, he points out that whoever is with him will never be against him. It is easy to criticize them for their incomprehension, but let’s think about what Jesus told them. It was challenging, seemingly quite illogical. He told them things that we still perceive as mysteries of faith. They certainly needed time to think about what they had heard – or to experience it, not just to listen to it. Even today, God’s plans are shrouded in mystery and often challenging to understand. But we don’t have to criticize them right away. For disciples can be a huge source of encouragement and hope for us: we don’t have to understand everything right away. We can overcome the lack of faith, just like them.

Let’s do the same. Let’s persevere in trust. Let us look for answers in the Scriptures and in the teachings of the Church. Even if something doesn’t make sense to us, we can trust that Jesus knows what we need and that he will reveal and reveal the truth to us when we ask him to. He will never give us up!